"Among the strategic facilities turned over to the Panamanian government was a deep underground intelligence facility. The facility is in Quarry Heights, where the U.S. Southern Command headquarters used to be located. In the middle of Ancon Hill, deep underground, was the Southern Command Intelligence Center. "From there we monitored and conducted intelligence operations for the Southern Hemisphere and Central America," a former intelligence official told me. "The place was top secret and built like a mini-Cheyenne Mountain" -the headquarters of the North American Aerospace Command in Colorado Springs that monitors worldwide missile launches and aircraft flights.
We just gave the whole facility to the Panamanians/Chinese," he said. Albrook Air Field, one of the facilities abandoned by the Pentagon, had been the base for regional surveillance operations for monitoring activities in Cuba and other parts of Central America. "There are many other military and intelligence facilities now gone," the former official lamented, including the Rodman Naval Air Station, which the Chinese had the option to lease, as well as military and intelligence facilities at Corozal, Corundu, Fort Clayton, Fort Sherman, and the Special Forces jungle training center. The former official said abandoning the military facilitites was a strategic mistake for the United States. "We will pay dearly for this as surely as the sun rises," he commented."
The China Threat
Bill Gertz
pg 91-92
We left them an empty cave. Period.
We just gave the whole facility to the Panamanians/Chinese," he said. Albrook Air Field, one of the facilities abandoned by the Pentagon, had been the base for regional surveillance operations for monitoring activities in Cuba and other parts of Central America.
Wrong. We were using Howard Air Base on the west bank. Albrook air field had been shut down for a million years for aircrafts. It appears that housing in Howard and Fort Kobbe will be sold to private individuals.
"There are many other military and intelligence facilities now gone," the former official lamented, including the Rodman Naval Air Station, which the Chinese had the option to lease, as well as military and intelligence facilities at Corozal, Corundu, Fort Clayton, Fort Sherman, and the Special Forces jungle training center.
Wrong. Rodman is being used by Panama and has been renamed. Corozal, Curundu, Fort Clayton, Fort Sherman are for local consumption. Fort Sherman and the Special Forces jungle training center were one in the same. I don’t know where Gertz got his misinformation and so much of it.